Pedro Gomez of ESPN.com reports that Jonathan Sanchez has agreed to a minor-league contract with the Dodgers after being released by the Pirates last week.

Sanchez is 1-12 with an 8.73 ERA, .330 opponents’ batting average, and more walks (61) than strikeouts (60) in 78 innings since the beginning of last season, so presumably it would take a pretty impressive stretch at Triple-A for the Dodgers to consider calling him up.

That terrible pitching included allowing 18 runs in 13.2 innings for the Pirates and last season he wasn’t even much good in the minors.

The big picture is positive: finally, a sector of the labor market that is so starved for bodies that it will take half-dead ones, and at six figures, no doubt. Green shoots of recovery indeed. This should be a feature story at WSJ.

If we’re going by WAR, the worst pitchers of the last two years (of those to have pitched at least 100 innings in that time) are Clayton Richard, Hector Noesi, and Jonathan Sanchez, with Brian Matusz and Alex White right behind him.

Jonathan Sanchez getting called up by the Dodgers, becomes a good starter again, and has a career year in his comeback season…a season good enough to win him the NL Cy Young award (meaning he’d have to outpitch teammate Clayton Kershaw)?